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<h2>Concept</h2>
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    The concept of daily money is very simple
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    <li>Different accounts (you create accounts depends on your case)</li>
    <li>Money transaction between accounts. (you record detail for each transaction)</li>
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<h2>Accounts</h2>

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    There are 5 types account, you can create/edit/delete it in Account Manager page.
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    <li class="income"><i>Income</i> : salary etc..</li>
    <li class="expense"><i>Expense</i> : food, entertainment etc.</li>
    <li class="asset"><i>Asset</i> : cash, bank</li>
    <li class="liability"><i>Liability</i> : credit card, loan.</li>
    <li class="other"><i>Other</i> : ...like a asset but is not asset.</li>
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    * To sort your account, you just add 1,2,.. or A.B,.. as the prefix of name of account.<br/>
    * Account name could have a hierarchical by naming with .(dot), Ex: Food.lunch, Food.dinner . When editing transaction detail, it provides better selecting of account.<br/>
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<h2>The transaction detail</h2>
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    When you spent money then you can click the Add Detail on the Main page to create a new record. for example you spent $10 bought a meal, in Detail Editor page, you
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    <li class="asset">Select from account : Cash</li>
    <li class="expense">Select to account : Food</li>
    <li>Select date : today</li>
    <li>Input money by calculator : 10</li>
    <li>Input description : hot dog, coke.</li>
    <li>click <i>Create</i> then click <i>Close</i> if no more transaction needs to be created.</li>
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    this is a just very common use case of daily-money, but, what if your salary is deposit to bank directly, you use credit card buy books on internet? 
    daily-money provide different type of account s, and you could create various accounts against 5 account type.
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<h2>Use cases</h2>
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<h3>Salary to Bank</h3>
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    <span class="income"><b>From</b> : Salary</span><br/>
    <span class="asset"><b>To</b> : Bank</span><br/>
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<h3>Bank to Cash</h3>
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    <span class="asset"><b>From</b> : Bank</span><br/>
    <span class="asset"><b>To</b> : Cash</span><br/>
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<h3>Buy stuff by credit card</h3>
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    <span class="liability"><b>From</b> : Credit card</span><br/>
    <span class="expense"><b>To</b> : Expensive PDA</span><br/>
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<h3>Pay credit card bill by Cash</h3>
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    <span class="asset"><b>From</b> : Cash</span><br/>
    <span class="liability"><b>To</b> : Credit card</span><br/>
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<h2>Balance Reports</h2>
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<h3>Ranged Balance</h3>
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    In ranged balance reports, I count balance of all the details that you created. The balance is calculated in a time range (current week, current month, current year, or you can change to other range by click the arrow button)
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<h3>Cumulated Balance</h3>
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    To calculate cumulated balance (ex, how much cash I have now, how much liability I have now. not how much I spent this week), 
    you have to set a initial value to a account(generally <i class="asset">Asset</i> or <i  class="liability">Liability</i> type accounts have non-zero initial value. 
    <i  class="income">Income</i> and <i  class="expense">Expense</i> type account should have no initial value).<br/>
    If you forgot to set initial value of an account, there is a simple way to adjust it. for example ,
    "I have cash 333, but cumulated balance reports shows I have cash -100)
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    <li>Edit cash account</li>
    <li>Set initial value of cash to 433, result of (333 - (-100))</li>
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